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The Houston Home Journal
Published weekly at 1010 Carroll Street, Perry, Georgia 31069
EDITOR, COOPER ETHERIDGE BUSINESS MANAGER, BYRON MAXWELL
ADVERTISING MANAGER, ALLEN ROBERT BRANCH
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Ah! It’s Spring Again
t As the long cold winter merges in
to the warm spring, people begin to re
■ lax and realize once more how good it
is to be alive. There’s something about
<the winter season that makes people a
little harder to get along with. But
4 when spring breaks, they let go of their
built up winter tensions and begin to
live life again as it should be lived.
■ Perhaps it is the cold weather and
hard rains during the winter months
that tend to depress people. Maybe it
I is these things that cause people to be
all business during the winter.
But when spring breaks, as it al-
The goals of research, embodying
the objectives of the nationwide Easter
Seal Society, seek the answers to such
questions as: can we prevent crippling?
1 ... can we reverse or retard the pro
cess of crippling? . . . Can we unleash
the biological and psychological poten
tial of the physically disabled? ....
what is our model of the rehabilitated
person? .... can we accelerate the
4 process of rehabilitation? . . . can we
improve the education of physically
handicapped children? .... can we
help the handicapped live full lives in
the community?
When all those questions are an
swered, the Easter Seal Society and its
Research Foundation will have worked
itself out of business. Until then, we
urge all readers to support the Socie
ty’s many programs for the crippled by
contributing to the Easter Seal Ap-
I peal.
What better insurance can you have
than to know you can get blood for you
and your love ones if and when it is
needed?
What better gift can you give a sick
relative, neighbor, friend, or Houston
Countian.
There is no substitute for BLOOD.
The number one excuse given by
most of us when asked to contribute
blood is: “I just don’t have the time."
But giving blood can contribute a life
time to someone in need.
It is of vital importance that the
blood quota is met here in Perry and
Houston County. It is very easy for
the county to loose it’s blanket cover
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Easter Seal Research
Support Bloodmobile April 6
ready has here, people forget the cold,
hard winter and begin looking forward
to the months of spring and summer
ahead. The warm weather means it is
time once again to think about vaca
tions, suntans, fishing, golf and every
thing that goes with warm weather . . ,
including walking around barefoot.
Even though Monday of this week
was the first official day of spring,
people have been anticipating its arri
val for some time . . . and surely every
one is happy to see spring arrive . . .
because spring is the one season of
the year that has something for every
one.
The Easter Seal Society is noted for
its treatment services to help rehabili
tate crippled children and adults, year
in and year out.
The Easter Seal Research Founda
tion, in the meantime, is trying to
bridge the gap by searching for clues
that will justify an all-out assault by
vast research efforts on this greatest
problem of mankind today—crippling
and handicapping conditions that make
some human beings imperfect.
The Research Foundation provides
grants-in-aid for scores of projects com
cerned with crippling. Grants are fin
ancing studies at medical schools and
university laboratories, at hospitals and
other institutions to learn more about
crippling .... the causes and preven
tion of crippling, methods for improv
ing impaired functions and measures
for enhancing the effectiveness of re
habilitation.
age, which provides free blood for ev
eryone. The individual who contributes
his pint of blood has no problem, be
cause whether the county meets the
quota or not. the individual who has
contributed will always have access
to needed blood for his family and
himself.
We urged everyone eligble to do
nate a pint of blood to the bloodmobile
when it visits Perry on Tuesday, April
5. It will be stationed at the Perry Me
thodist Church between the hours of
10:30 a. m. and 3:30 p. m.
Won’t you make it a point to be
there and give a pint of blood?—It
could save your life.
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ABOUT
NOW!
BY COOPER ETHERIDGE
STREET SCENE: A Houston County sheriff’s
deputy driving wrong way on a one-way street in
Perry. Give him credit, the street has just been
made one-way and he didn’t realize it.
POLITICAL EXPERT: Everyone gets into the
ajct o| forecasting political races, or giving advice to
candidates. We resigned from both fields after the
last presidential election. We wrote Lyndon Baines
Johnson (why not go to the top?) and told him he
was going to get a real licking at the polls. We told
him that all the people in this area, plus all those
travelling through, said he was going to be defeated
by a landslide. We told hipi if he wanted to get
elected he had better change his tactics. One of
his secretaries (LBJ was busy at the moment) ac
knowledged our letter and said they would take our
advice under consideration, but they thought LBJ
was doing all right. You know the result and you
will see why we resigned from giving anyone ad
vice on how to run a campaign.
SICKENING: The Atlanta Journal reported last
week that one of its reporters had made a month
long investigation of reports, that Hosea Williams,
one of Martin Luther King’s lieutenants, and possi
bly other SNCC leaders, had in their possession
some keys to cars reported stolen. Neither the
FBI ,the Justice Department, nor anyone else would
make any comment on the case. It is very sickening
to see a government knuckle under to power poli
tics for votes, and this seems to be the correct analy
sis of this squelching of this case.
J LIGHT FROM
Bpw lamps of truth
BY REV. BILLY KEY
Pastor, Perry Methodist Church
Several years ago a business man from America
visited the Passion Play performance which is held
at Oberammergau. During the play the American
noticed that the actor that was bearing the cross
was truly loaded down and could hardly carry its
weight as he struggled up the hill representing
Calvary. Upon asking about this he was told that
the weight of the cross was so heavy that it almost
crushed the bearer under its weight.
The next dav the business man went to see
the bearer of the cross, who had now become an old
man. His name was Anton Lang and he had played
the part of Christus for several decades. He had
borne the weight of the cross hundreds of times.
Lang confirmed the fact that the cross was so heavy
he could hardly carry it. The business man asked,
“But why burden yourself this way, carry a lighter
cross, after all it is only a play.” Without a mo
ment’s hesitation Lang answered, “If I do not feel
the weight. I cannot act the part.”
Jesus Christ never promised that the cross that
he gives to us will be light and easy to bear. But
Christ does promise strength for the day, rest for
the weary, and light on the way. It is still a fact
today that Christians must bear the cross and,
though we may bend under its weight, it will never
break us.
"They who wait upon the Lord shall renew
- their strength,
They shall mount up with wings like
eagles.
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40: 31.
Soil Conservation
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BY JACK C. MILLER
Several of our Houston farm
ers, cooperating with their Oc
mulgee Soil and Water Conser
vation District, are planning on
planting some Lespedeza Seri
cea on a part of their cropland
that they plan to retire from
crop production for a apeJJ.
It’s a good crop for this pur
pose.
Sericea is a long-lived, deep
rooted summer perennial leg
ume. It is tall and erect grow
ing. It is an excellent plant for
erosion control and soil conser
vation and it builds and main
tains soil fertility.
If managed properly it fur
nishes good summer grazing
and hay. It should be grazed
when about 4 inches high and
cut for hay when some 12 inch
es high. If it gets too big it is
quite woody and of low quality
for grazing or hay.
Sericea is adapted to a wide
range of soils but prefers clay
soils. It should not be planted
on wet poorly drained soils or
on light sandy soils which are
infested with nematodes.
Sericea should ze planted on
a firm, smooth seedbed which
can be prepared by disking,
harrowing and rolling with a
cultipacker. If necessary we
should wait for a rain to settle
the seedbed before planting.
We should plant 30 to 50
pounds of recleaned, scarified
seed per acre in late winter
after danger of frost is past
or in early soring. We can
broadcast seed following a
spiketooth harrow or use a cul
tipacker - seeder which is an
ideal machine to use in seeding
sericea.
Letters to
The Editor
Editor, Homs Journal:
Let me ask the assistance of
your paper in contacting Hous
ton County’s senior citizens,
those 65 and over.
I want to urge each one to
study the medicare plan and
sign for this. Complete the card
received and return it to the
Social Security Office.
I was distressed to hear from
Mr. Arnold, our district repre
sentative, that Houston County
citizens are not returning the
cards mailed to them. Houston
County ranks as one of the low
est of the counties in his dis
trict in regard to the signing
up of this program.
Please urge that all who are
eligible take advantage of Medi
care. The deadline date is
March 31.
Remember that to be eligible
for hospitalization, a person
must have a number. He may
apply at the same time. To be
eligible for the additional ben
efits, one must sign at once,
no later than March 31.
AURELIA C. EVANS
Houston County Dept.
of FACS
The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thursday, Mar. 24, 1966
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The three of them entered the restaurant, with
the young man and woman coming in ahead of the
elderly woman. The young couple looked to be in
their early thirties and the elderly woman was pro
bably between 80 and 85 years old.
“You better go wash your hands and clean up
some,” the young man said to the old woman.
“Yeah, you look kinda bad to me,” the young
woman said.
The old woman then got up and moved toward
the rest room. She seemed agile for her age but
th expression on her face was one of worry and
frustration. She acted as though she was afraid of
the younger couple .... she probably was.
After she had disappeared into the rest room,
the young man turned to the woman and said: “She
may be my grandmother and all that, but she sure
is a lot of damn trouble.”
The young woman turned toward the man and
spoke. “Yeah, she is a lotta’ trouble but there is
One thing to look forward to’, even though I guess
I shouldn’t say it.”
“What‘s that,” the man said.
“Well, its just that she can’t possibly keep living
forever you know,” the woman said. >
“You got a point there,” he replies.
The man looked toward the rest room in which
the old woman had entered and turned to the wom
an and said, “You think you better go see if she’s
alright, she shoulda’ been back by now.”
“She’s alright,” the woman said.
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” he said. “We’ll just
l * have to put up with the old gal until she dies or
something.”
1 I couldn’t help overhearing this miserable con
versation. I was sitting in the booth behind these
people, having a cup of coffee before I went to work
1 the other morning.'! couldn’t drink the rest of my
coffee after I had heard the conversation ... I was
sick all day.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST . . .
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This spring weather reminds me of when I was
growing up down on the Georgia coast. When the
warm weather arrived, that was a sign that it was
time to shed your shirt and shoes and let the spring
> sun start to work on you.
l Spring meant that it was time to dig your bare
feet into the warm, white sand and let the small
J Atlantic breakers rush over your ankles while
standing in the edge of the surf. It meant that the
salty Atlantic breezes were once again warm and
refreshing and left a layer of salt on your face
after blowing across it. Spring meant that it was
time to relax and store your youthful worries and
ambitions until the winter rolled around again . . ,
Spring and summer was no time to worry about
anything.
Spring meant you could get up early in the
morning, go outside, take a deep breath of the
fresh salt air and really come alive.
Somehow it is not quite the same as it was when
I was a small boy growing up on the coast of Geor
gia. But spring is still the best time of the year , , .
for both young and old alike.
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our policy here at the Home Journal to put forth
a consistent effort to publish one of Georgia’s best
weekly newspapers.
EVENT: The Miss Perry Pageant takes place
this Saturday night at the Perry Junior High Audi
torium, with the current Miss Georgia as the mas
ter of ceremonies .... Don’t miss it.
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FUEL PROOF ... A UA Air Fan* CH S# helicopter is
fueled by a U.S, Marine Corps KC-130F tanker at ~1
Point, N.C. recently in what is described as the first sn _
air-to-air refueling test involving a ’copter and a fixed wws
plane. It took three minutes to refuel the chopper.
the experiment promises mnch greater range for the